Posts Tagged ‘Monsanto’

The city of San Jose, California, has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto that alleges the company knowingly polluted the San Francisco Bay with PCBs and says Monsanto should pay to clean up the contamination.
The ...

Monsanto says it was “surprised” by French environment minister Ségolène Royal’s comments made over the weekend about the sale of its Roundup lawn and garden products.
Royal proposed restricting the pesticide to behind-the-counter sales — ...

Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture along with its 75 members — including Cargill, Coca-Cola, Environmental Defense Fund and Monsanto — pledged to develop the next generation of farm-level sustainability metrics during a roundtable session ...

Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture has partnered with The Sustainability Consortium in a move aimed at creating a common framework to measure and report the sustainability of US agriculture.
In a memorandum ...

Monsanto has selected Locus Technologies’ cloud-based software to manage its company-wide sustainability efforts.
Monsanto has adopted the Global Reporting Initiative framework to measure and report on its sustainability efforts. As a member of ...

Monsanto says it will work to increase water-use efficiency in irrigation across its own global seed production operations by 25 percent by 2020. While overall water use will vary due to the weather, ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved The Better Buildings Act (HR 2126), a bipartisan energy efficiency bill authored by Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Rep. David McKinley (R-WV). As part of the ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said the Senate will hold hearings on the West Virginia chemical spill that left 300,000 residents unable to drink their tap water. She said a hearing in early February will ...

White House deputy director for climate Dan Utech has become President Obama's top energy and climate change advisor, The Hill reports. Utech replaces Heather Zichal, whose last day was Friday.
The Department of Energy will invest ...